Kids who learn to travel will travel to learn. In 100 PLACES THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR CHILD'S LIFE National Geographic Traveler Editor Keith Bellows sends you and your children globetrotting for life-changing vacations that will expand their horizons and shape their perspectives.

Set in an unnamed foreign country, A WORD FOR LOVE is Emily Robbins' debut novel about a young American woman who arrives in search of an “astonishing text”—said to have the power to make all its readers weep—but finds herself caught instead in the lives of her host family and a Romeo & Juliet-like romance that ultimately teaches her about love, loyalty, and herself—and changes her reading of everything.

ALCHEMICAL HEALING (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2020) by Lorie Eve Dechar with Benjamin Fox is a hands-on guide for practitioners and patients as well as a journey of discovery, a meditation on what it means to heal and live a truly health-filled life.

With the same storytelling brio that distinguished the acclaimed novels RIVER, CROSS MY HEART and STAND THE STORM, Breena Clarke weaves the richly dramatic story of one woman’s triumph in the crucible of history in ANGELS MAKE THEIR HOPE HERE.

In the tradition of classic dog stories like J. R. Ackerley’s MY DOG TULIP, actor Vincent Price’s THE BOOK OF JOE shares the heartwarming tale of his fourteen-year love affair with his beguiling and preternaturally intelligent mutt. Courageous and intensely devoted to his owner, Joe was a special dog with a personality all his own. The tender and witty recollections of time spent with Joe bring joy to any animal lover’s heart.

In Born DigitalJohn Palfrey investigates the first generation of “Digital Natives” — children who were born into and raised in the digital world. They are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who are these Digital Natives? And what is the world they’re creating going to look like?

In BRILLIANT: THE EVOLUTION OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, award-winning author Jane Brox offers a sweeping history of our transformative relationship with light—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future—and reveals that the surprising, complex story of our illumination is also the story of our modern selves.

From the highly acclaimed author of EDISTO and THE INTERROGATIVE MOOD, Padgett Powell’s new collection of stories, CRIES FOR HELP, VARIOUS, ventures again to surrealistic and comical terrain. The forty-four stories here, preoccupied with longing, fear, work, loneliness, and cultural nostalgia, are given exhilarating life by way of Powell’s “wit, his. . .dazzling turns of phrase” (Scott Spencer).

In DISTURBED IN THEIR NESTS, new from Blackstone in Nov. 2018, 19 year-old Sudanese refugee Alephonsion Deng is greeted by suburban mom Judy Bernstein at the International Rescue Committee in San Diego. Their memoir recounts the initial collision of their cultures, growing trust, and ultimate friendship in adjusting Alepho to his new country, and reveals two very different ideas about America and its promises.

The House of Boivin, purveyor of sumptuous jewelry, created five ruby and amethyst starfish brooches in the years before WWII which have moved beneath the surface of public awareness ever since, bought and sold in the utmost secrecy. DIVING FOR STARFISH (St. Martins, 2018) is Cherie Burns’s chronicle of these artifacts, the secrets they've held in the 75 years they've adorned the high societies of New York and Paris, and the larger-than-life personalities who feature in their tale.

Encompassing ten short stories, Jeffery Renard Allen's forthcoming collection FAT TIME (Graywolf Press, 2020) is loosely linked around African notions of time and place, along with African views of space, cosmology, and metaphysics. Taken together, these ten stories represent a contemporary master at the top of his craft.

Jill Eisenstadt’s fast-paced first novel FROM ROCKAWAY chronicles the coming-of-age of four teenagers in Rockaway, or "Rotaway," at the Atlantic edge of New York City. First published to wide praise when Eisenstadt was a 24-year-old Bennington College graduate, the work will be republished in 2017.

The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal creates a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving portrait of life today—where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents and their grown children vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, “Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction.” HALF THE KINGDOM was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

She’s Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal’s brilliant novel is the story of their love affair—one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.

In HOW TO ARGUE WITH A CAT, from Rodale Books in the US and Penguin Press UK, rhetoric expert Jay Heinrichs has teamed up with illustrator Natalie Sutton to show how cats can teach us the ancient art of persuasion. In this funny and informative book, both young and adult readers will learn how cats apply rhetoric to get whatever they want, and how we can too.

Lucy Ives’s IMPOSSIBLE VIEWS OF THE WORLD, part Possession, part Bridget Jones’s Diary, the story of Stella Krakus, a curator at a New York museum. The sudden death of a coworker and the appearance of a strange map propels Stella into an investigation of the archives at her workplace, revealing a path to Stella's own liberation.

On September 11, 2001, Lillie Leonardi/span> was a Community Affairs Specialist with the FBI’s Pittsburgh division. IN THE SHADOW OF A BADGE is her firsthand account of the spiritual encounter she experienced while serving in her professional capacity during that shattering time.

As featured in the 2015 Working Title/NBCUniversal major motion picture EVEREST: on May 10, 1996, nine climbers perished in the “death zone” on Mount Everest. The following day, one was given a second chance at life. His name was Beck Weathers. Bold, candid, and uncompromising, LEFT FOR DEAD is a deeply compelling story of loss and regeneration, of midlife crisis and chance, and of the abiding power of love and family.

Award-winning author Barbara Hurd has made an art of calling our attention to the finest details of the world around us. In LISTENING TO THE SAVAGE, she focuses on our experience of sound—and how “lowering the ear” can deepen our understanding of life’s meaning and memories, its resonance and vibrancy.

AARP’s positive living expert Barbara Hannah Grufferman'sLOVE YOUR AGE, new from National Geographic, is an accessible and elucidating guide to helping busy, digitally-savvy women take charge of their health, fitness, and style.

Lore Segal’s brilliant –and, some would say, scathing– look at the New York literary scene was instantly beloved when it was first published and remains fresh as ever. The sensitive and prickly refugee child who is the heroine of OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES has grown up, and the witty and whimsical story of her adventures among the literati is LUCINELLA.

MARGARET THE FIRST is Danielle Dutton's elegant novel based on seventeenth-century writer and polymath Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women to be published and a notoriously audacious and polarizing figure in her day. Everything we love in an historical novel from a startling, sharp contemporary voice.

Sil & Eliza Reynolds are a mother/daughter team whose first book, MOTHERING & DAUGHTERING, teach that it’s possible for mothers and daughters to not only survive the adolescent years but thrive in them, and that no matter how it appears or what people say, teenage daughters want and need a close relationship with their mothers.

Aaron Thier's caustic and sharp novel
MR. ETERNITY is narrated by five different twenty-somethings around the New World at five moments in time (1560, 1750, 2013, 2200, 2500), all of whom worry about the same problems that besiege young people. Linking them is the affable, immortal Mr. Eternity—an ancient sailor called Daniel Defoe—who entangles himself in the lives of people he meets while searching across time for his lost love.

Elvia Wilks'OVAL (Soft Skull Press, 2019) is a deeply imaginative work of literary fiction that reflects the way Berlin has changed and paints a portrait of this culture-capital today and soon. This memorable debut styles and recreates the city, prompting us to consider an unsettling and yet all-too-plausible future in which imminent change becomes undeniable.

Truly a master of envelope-pushing, post-postmodern American fiction, in a class with Nicholas Baker and Lydia Davis, Padgett Powell brilliantly blends the sublime, the trivial, and the oddball in YOU & ME, as two loquacious gents on a porch discuss all manner of subjects, from the mundane to the spiritual to the downright ridiculous.

Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. Breena Clarke's RIVER, CROSS MY HEART , a New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection, weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind.

Cheri Burns'Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers is the first biography of the Standard Oil heiress -- beautiful, well-bred and wild -- who made her mark on the worlds of high society and haute couture in New York, Europe, and Hollywood as a preamble to her romantic reinvention in Taos, New Mexico in the 1940s. It is one woman’s relentless reinvention and personal metamorphosis through her pursuit of style and beauty.

Sam Sifton is food editor and former dining critic for The New York Times. His second book, SEE YOU ON SUNDAY, coming in October 2019 from Random House, is a home-cooking manifesto derived from more than two decades of food reporting and cooking by one of America’s finest food writers.

Lore Segal's thirteen interrelated stories collected here concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, SHAKESPEARE'S KITCHEN evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in The New Yorker (including the O. Henry Prize–winning “The Reverse Bug”).

Mary Rodgers Guettel was Richard Rodgers's daughter, a noted composer, author, and arts doyenne in her own right and the sharpest tongue in show biz. Her posthumous memoir SHY: The Autobiography of Mary Rodgers Guettel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), written with New York Times co-chief theater critic Jesse Green, is broader than a memoir, more personal than a biography, more true than a novel, yet contains elements of each.

With precision and grace, award-winning author Jane Brox traces the evolution of silence in society. Through the specific histories of the Senanque monastery in France and the first silent prison, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, SILENCE (Houghton Mifflin, 2019) explores the harrowing power of silence and our often fraught relationship with communication and solitude.

A 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for Fiction: the powerful new novel from the prodigiously talented author of RAILS UNDER MY BACK, SONG OF THE SHANK is Jeffery Renard Allen's contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era.

The second novel from bestselling author Breena Clarke -whose work has drawn comparisons to Eudora Welty and Toni Morrison- STAND THE STORM follows the Coats family, freed slaves living in the “promised land” of Georgetown in Washington, D.C. that is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous.

With SWELL, Jill Eisenstadt returns to her native Rockaway, Queens to expose a time, a town, and a family at their most vulnerable. Full of the dark humor and crisp observations that make her style so memorably distinctive, SWELL is a rapid-paced and transporting read.

Whether you are an inveterate lover of language or just want to win a lot more anger-free arguments—THANK YOU FOR ARGUING is Jay Heinrichs' master class in the art of persuasion. Learn the tools from Homer Simpson, Winston Churchill and—in this revised and updated edition—President Barack Obama, as well.

From Sam Sifton-one of America’s finest food writers, senior editor and former restaurant critic for The New York Times- comes a definitive, timeless guide to Thanksgiving dinner—preparing it, surviving it, and pulling it off in style: THANKSGIVING: HOW TO COOK IT WELL.

Aaron Thier’s debut novel THE GHOST APPLE is set on the New Hampshire campus of Tripoli College—an institution that, beset by financial problems, has entered into a coercive agreement with a corrupt “food services” corporation called Big Anna. Big Anna deposes the college’s president and installs a tyrant who contrives to enslave study-abroad students on a sugar plantation on St. Renard, an island in the Caribbean.

THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG PROMISES is a compilation of stories, visualizations, meditations, and mantras to reveal, access, and utilize the personal promises we make for this lifetime that will enable us to express our full potential. Peggy Rometo teaches us how becoming more aware of ourselves and others will allow us to tap into our intuition and discover our deepest purpose.

From international bestselling author Richard Zimler comes a new psychological thriller, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, a uniquely moving feat of storytelling that reveals the damaging repercussions of abuse, and offers a startling look at the underbelly of Zimler’s adopted home.

In THE WHITE LIGHT OF GRACE, author and speaker Lillie Leonardi shares the stories of her life, beginning with the ancestral origins of her intuitive gifts and the early childhood experiences that uncover her ability to communicate with angels.

In Mary South’s forthcoming UNTITLED NOVEL (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), women are turning into common household objects, such as vacuums, microwave ovens, and flatscreen televisions. The novel’s protagonist observes this process as a nurse at a hospice for women of the 1%, where only the rich and the famous can receive adequate care while enduring such a painful and unusual change.

Victoria Price'sTHE WAY OF BEING LOST: A Road Trip to My Truest Self (Dover/Ixia Press, 2018) is a candid account of rediscovering one’s sense of self after years of struggle. Inspired by Victoria’s weekly blog, this memoir is a reminder of the importance of making peace with our past in order to live our most authentic lives.

WORLD PEACE AND OTHER 4TH-GRADE ACHIEVEMENTS shares educator John Hunter's stories of conflict resolution and collective problem-solving gleaned from 30 years teaching children the World Peace Game, a groundbreaking global systems simulation he invented.

In her debut collection YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), Mary South’s characters use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves. These 10 stories feature an impressive range of voices, alternatingly provocative, wistful, and calculatingly disaffected in prose that is fiercely intelligent and outlandishly funny.